Voter ID, minimum wage petitions make Nebraska's November ballot

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN — Nebraskans will decide this November about requiring people to present identification to vote and about raising the state's minimum wage.

Secretary of State Bob Evnen announced Tuesday that both petitions had garnered enough signatures to qualify for the general election ballot.

“After careful review by our counties, I can confirm that the statutory requirements for valid signatures have been met by both the voter ID and the minimum wage initiatives,” he said. “I have reviewed the initiatives, and both are in compliance with the law."

The Nebraska Constitution requires proposed constitutional amendments, such as the voter ID proposal, to collect valid signatures from 10% of registered voters. Evnen said the measure had 136,458 valid signatures, well above the 123,966 signatures needed to go before voters.

Read more: https://omaha.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/voter-id-minimum-wage-petitions-make-nebraskas-november-ballot/article_3cdb09ba-2df3-11ed-9e26-7729fd0a7d29.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

[PBC_Democrat]

1. I Predict Both Will Pass Easily ...

The minimum wage increase will be more popular.

My Guess:
Voter ID - 58%
Min Wage - 63%

[madville]

2. Would guess both will pass

Depending on polling there is usually 60-80% support for requiring ID to vote. Minimum wage increase initiatives have also passed in several red states recently, those seem fairly popular as well.

[Polybius]

3. I'm cool with both passing

I think positive, so I will focus on minimum wage passing and keeping the Senate.

[jimfields33]

4. Me too

I would like states to issue state IDs to people with no drivers licenses. I think that is very easy to do.

[James48]

5. It's only easy to do if politicians want it to be easy.

Just ask all those disenfranchised voters in places in Texas where they closed all the offices responsible for issuing State ID’s. Or Georgia and Alabama making it difficult to get an ID if you lived in a predominantly minority area. Remember that?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/voter-id-laws-simply-are-not-working-in-texas-alabama-and-georgia

[geardaddy]

6. This

I'm glad our voter ID ballot measure in Minnesota failed a few years ago. It was pushed hard by the MN Goopers.

[crickets]

8. Yep. This. nt

[geardaddy]

7. Voter ID law ballot measures

are an ALEC backed item. I'm completely against them.